One year ago today: January 28, 2020, fun, no consequences.
Five years ago today: January 28, 2016, fake apologies reek.
Nine years ago today: January 28, 2012, keep a small reserve.
Random years ago today: January 28, 2008, less than 20%.
Some 2,281 people tuned in to hear Biden’s speech that we are all “morally deprived”. These numbers are beginning to compete with my blog. The left has changed the rulebook for reporting Carona deaths, they must show that things are improving even if they have to lie about it. Here’s another product designed by morons. The DIY A/C recharge hose. They have around a foot of hose. These follow the drum box, camera model, where each manufacturer intentionally builds in some defect. What could go wrong with a recharge hose?
hose on the tip has a very small valve, the button you press to release the freon. It can only be operated by one finger, which requires so much effort, you will have to stop several times even using the smallest canister size. Both are difficult to clip on to the A/C filler nozzle, but the bottom one goes further by destroying itself if you remove it wrong. It is equally difficult to get on to the nozzle but you must be sure to remove it very carefully or it will never stay on again.
The kit with the longest hose is around 22 inches, still too short. I’m going to seek a way to splice this these two semi-useless hoses into a longer piece, providing I can find a way to mate the pieces up. This recharge should have taken twenty minutes. Including travel time, it was more like an hour and a half.
How about that hedge fund riot on Wall Street. If you are not sure how it works, I’ll give the quick explanation. Hedge funds bet on market movement—but they quickly learned to manipulate that in their favor. Nothing new about that. One favorite is to bet on a stock that is falling, I won’t go into detail. The problem is, these funds work on margins, which amplify the gains or losses. As the stock falls, they make money. What happened is a ton of social media types all apparently agreed to start buying one of the failing stocks on purpose, making the price skyrocket instead of fall. This creates a headache for the hedge funds, who must buy that stock when the option expires. No margin, but full price. If they don’t stop trading or pull some stunt, they could be facing bankruptcy in a matter of hours. I’d bet my stimulus check, except I think the hedge funds will just get baled out. Still, it’s great that a small group of consumers can set them on their asses.
Houseboat.
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Critical race theory. Once again I got to listen to a group discussing something most of them did not know much about. It’s your classic instance of a little knowledge being a bad thing. CRT is kind of based on the concept that one’s race is a major factor in one’s social standing. To me, if this were true, we would also have critical gender theory, critical overweight theory, and in my instance, critical bass players theory. I’m saying that no one facet determines anything about a person’s total being, that it is the totality of many factors, many beyond your control.
So I’m not saying CRT is wrong, in the sense that there are so many exceptions, but that if you let any single factor arise to dominate yourexistence, then yes darn rights it becomes critical. At least to the person involved, that is. It transforms them into victims. The theory goes on to say that any dominant culture mode (by which they mean white people) is racist because their laws, institutions, and perceptions have prejudice built into them. Anybody who has listened to their kid brother go on is familiar with this phase of juvenile mental development.
The topic nowadays concerns an extension of the theory that says things that white people believe in, such as honesty, self-reliance, and fairness are themselves racism and are used to subjugate non-whites. Myself, I’ve long since taken sides on the issue, pointing out that if you look at other “races” and societies, the fact they copycat “white” ways is proof in itself that one system is better than the others. And the better you copy it, the better off you are, both being comparative terms, no absolute. Case in point, China. They are an emerging nation on one and only one major count—everything they do is copying American ways except the belief in, you guessed it, honesty, self-reliance, fairness, you get the message.
In case you don’t, what they are not copying is the concepts of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, etc. If these are ruled “white”, then yes, they are superior to anything the rest have come up with since the dawn of time. To me, CRT debunks itself as the wailing of envious malcontents. I can handily claim that I, too, have been held back by the system, which robs me to give handouts to those who don’t and won’t work for a living. (I did not say can’t work, but believe only a tiny fraction of society should ever get welfare, paid for by those who agree with such things.)
